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Native plants in Porterville

95 plants are genuinely native to this area — not merely able to survive here. They are grouped below by what they do in a garden, from canopy trees down to groundcovers.

Best represented here: perennials (57), grasses (20), shrubs (14) · 6 of them need no watering beyond Porterville’s own rainfall

Showing 13 plants · 82 more are native here but not in the catalog yet

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Shrubs3

Backbone planting

Sugar Shack Buttonbush

Cephalanthus occidentalis 'Sugar Shack'

Red Twig Dogwood

Cornus sericea 'Red Twig'

Sacred Datura

Datura wrightii

Perennials9

Seasonal colour

California Poppy

Eschscholzia californica

Common Yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Common Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

Broadleaf Arrowhead

Sagittaria latifolia

narrowleaf milkweed

Asclepias fascicularis

Bird's Eyes

Gilia tricolor 'Bird's Eyes'

White Baby Blue Eyes

Nemophila menziesii 'Snow White'

Lacy phacelia Bluebell phacelia

Phacelia tanacetifolia

No watering needed

Sacred Datura

Datura wrightii

Vines1

Verticals and screens

Roger's Red Grape

Vitis x californica 'Roger's Red'

Ferns1

Shade and damp

Water Clover

Marsilea vestita

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